Most misalignments (subluxations) occur in children’s spines due to some very common scenarios. In the normal birth process the doctor uses the head to pull the child out of the birth channel creating the potential for misalignment of the neck. Then during learning how to walk, falling off of couches, playing sports, wrestling with siblings, a child undergoes thousands of events that have the potential to subluxate a spine. Since pain neurology is developing often these go unnoticed for years since symptoms are not occurring.

In 2015 a study done by European Osteopaths that revealed that between 91-94 of 100 infants evaluated 6 days to 6 weeks after the birth process had spinal misalignments. The study also noted that the longer the birth process, the more areas were misaligned.